All-star
An all-star team is a group of people all having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and has been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry.
Sports
Sports leagues often organize annual all-star games, an exhibition game aiming to pit top players against each other. Typically, the games are held between teams representing a league's conferences, divisions, or nationality, with the exact rosters determined by either the league, a public poll, or a "draft" process involving honorary captains.Entertainment
Cinema
The term "all star" is also used in films, often used as a form of publicity gimmick to promote the cast of a movie in which a number of high-profile actors appear, sometimes merely in cameo roles. An archetype is the 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days.Television
In a similar vein to sporting events, some reality television franchises ' have held all-star seasons featuring notable contestants from previous seasons, such as champions, contestants popular among viewers, and notable contestants from international versions of the franchise. These can include entire seasons where the alumni compete against each other, or a spin-off competition with a different format. One such example—Survivor: Winners at War—marked the 40th season and 20th anniversary of the American version. It featured 20 winners from past seasons competing for an increased cash prize of $2,000,000. Most of its challenges were also reprised from the seasons that the cast members had originally competed in.' Another, example is the Australia V The World edition of Australian Survivor—in which players from the Australian version of Survivor competed against players from other versions of the show.Sometimes, all-star crossovers may be organized between contestants of multiple reality formats; the MTV series The Challenge was originally a competition spin-off of its reality shows The Real World and Road Rules, but later seasons began to increasingly include alumni from other popular reality series such as The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Love Island, Survivor.